Keys to Effective Change

Essay 1:
Fullan suggests that successful change
initiatives require the leader to understand the dynamics of both
the
individual and the organization’s capacity to change. The guidelines for
successful change (p. 46-52) provide the leader with 6 key ideas. (I have
listed them below and added how I used those particular
guidelines that the
essay will be about)
*1-Define closing the gap as the overarching
goal.
-I
taught ESOL students in Kindergarten. I worked on closing the gap between their
language
barriers.
–You
can add to this.
*2-Recognize that all successful strategies are
socially based and action oriented—change by doing
rather than change by
elaborate planning.
-As
an African American teacher leading ESOL students, I made sure that my students
and parents trusted me before anything. I also made sure I led by example. I
also held my ESOL students accountable for learning and becoming better
students. I continued to teach them every single day. Even the students who
could not speak any English at all. I took pride in teaching them and laying
the foundation for them. I also made them comfortable to be with me all day.
There was a no judgement rule in my class with my students.
–You
can add to this.
3-Assume that lack of capacity is the initial
problem and then work on it continuously.
4-Stay the course through continuity of good
direction by leveraging leadership.
5-Build internal accountability linked to
external accountability.
*6-Establish conditions for the evolution of positive
pressure.
-I
was a huge motivator for my students and their parents. I was their biggest fan
when it came to
learning our rigorous curriculum. Most of my ESOL students’
parents did not speak any English. Therefore, I had to give them all of me at
school. There was no guarantee for them to get any help once they got
home. We
utilized every resource I had in my classroom, as well as the resources the
school provided for
the ESOL families. We did not make any excuses about
anything. We lwere learning!
-You
can add to this.
Choose three (3) of these ideas.
(I chose 1, 2, and 6.) In your opening paragraph of the paper (which in APA
format is the main body of the paper), identify the three you will
discuss. Use subheadings to identify each one. For each
subheading,
a) explain the element in your own words, and b) describe a change initiative
in which you
have been involved that may or may not have utilized any of these
ideas in bringing about change. Close
the paper with 1-2 paragraphs about what
you have concluded about organizational change from your
readings and analysis.
Be sure to read the rubric before you begin this
draft. Note that both the text and outside references that you will
locate and read yourself are required to earn full points. A doctoral
student should begin to look at other sources than a text and this will
acquaint you with doing this. Using the key words of Fullan for the
element in a search engine you choose, use scholarly resources and find others
who have argued the
same idea or the opposite. In
addition to the text, incorporate 4 or more resources you have selected.

Required Readings
Bolman, L., & Deal,
T. E. (2017). Reframing organizations: Artistry, choice, and leadership (6th
ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
The university does not advocate the use of the
inappropriate language in the 6th edition of the
Bolman and Deal text.

Fullan, M. (2016). The
new meaning of educational change (5th ed.). Teachers College Press. Fullan,
Chapters 1-4

Supplemental
References and Readings
Blanchard,
K., Britt, J., Hoekstra, J., & Zigarmi, P. (2009). Who killed change?
Solving the mystery of
leading people through change. Harper Collins Publishers.

Conner, D. R. (2006). Managing at the speed of
change. Random House.

Kaye, B., & Jordan-Evan, S. (2003). Love it,
don’t
leave it: 26 ways to get what you want at
work. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.

Kotter, J. (2008). A sense of urgency. Harvard
Business School Publishers.

Kotter, J. (2012). Leading change. Harvard
Business School Press.

Senge, P. (1999). The dance of change: The
challenges to sustaining momentum in learning
organizations. Doubleday.

Spiro, J. (2011). Leading change step-by-step:
Tactics, tools, and tales. Jossey-Bass.

Tomal,
D. R., Schilling, C.A., & Trybus, M. A. (2013). Leading school change. Rowman
& Littlefield.

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